Climate Change PSA (ASP8, Photoshop, Wacom Cintiq)

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:35 pm

Hi,

I recently completed the animation for a Public Service Announcement for TV that was a collaboration between a whole bunch of people, incorporating live action and animation and merging seemlessly between the two (someone else did the transitions, works really well I think). My brother made the music for the video, nice group project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJr4IgOKHw

Its an unlisted link at the moment, waiting for the person(s) in charge to clear it for larger public release, but I understand (from someone that's seen it) that its been playing on South African public television.

I drew the stuff in Photoshop CS4 on a Macbook with a Wacom Cintiq 12wx, did a storyboard first, and used ASP8's new PSD live update capability which was pretty rad.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:13 am

Nice job.

How did you do the video in the book when the river floods and the camera zooms out and the video turns into an image?

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:48 am

sbtamu wrote:Nice job.

How did you do the video in the book when the river floods and the camera zooms out and the video turns into an image?

Personally I would go backward with this, start with the book image and animate backward from it.

Everything them comped in AFX or similar!

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:49 am

Great video btw Scott!

Gnaws · Post by **Gnaws** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:20 am

Top Shelf, Brother!

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:15 am

Brilliant as always

cheyne · Post by **cheyne** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:54 am

Brilliant MikDawg - the message really hit home with this bit. I think it should be broadcast world wide!

paulcopeland · Post by **paulcopeland** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:19 am

Really great animation with the timing images and transitions.

Well done indeed.

Paul.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:19 am

@ sbatmu

Thanks man. As previously stated someone else (Riaan from Pepperoni Pictures) did the transitions. Not sure quite how he did them, he was using a Macbook Pro I think and possibly After Effects I suppose. I really liked what he did with them. Basically the pages were blank I think and he took my animation and comp'd it to the real life footage. The pages probably had markers on them and from what I understand After Effects has pretty good tracking capabilities. I assume you're asking for your 'mice running through the barn' shot.

@ others - thank you. The clip is now public woot.